COLOURS – GHAZAL KE ANEK RANG

For the seasoned ghazal listener, or for the relative novice; there can hardly be a better compilation of ghazals on a single album. Just when your dad thought his old LP’s and audio tapes had cast away his priceless ghazal collection, Sa Re Ga Ma has released Colours – Ghazal Ke Anek Rang. By bringing together the doyens of ghazal singing (Beghum Akhtar & Jagjit Singh), and a selection of some of ghazal history’s choicest (Mere Humnafas Mere Humnava, Hazaron Khwaishen Aisi); Colours presents a most delectable feast for the sung-poetry fan. While the lyric of poets like Ghalib and Faakir encapsulate conflict, longing and suffering most ingeniously; the haunting melody of master composers articulates the poets’ vision painfully well. Jagjit Singh at his prime, singing of one too many wishes, each more farfetched than the other; Beghum Akhtar singing of a friend whom she fears has deserted and ruined her; what these poets and musicians bring to life, is more than the emotion of the writing. It is the whole and complete journey of the listener, into a different realm, a higher realm, a surreal state. To top off the album, such classic gems as Seene Mein Jalan (by Suresh Wadkar) and Ruke Ruke Se Kadam (by none other than Lata Mangeshkar), bolster Colours as the ideal mix of serious and a more egalitarian form of the Ghazal. And at this price, it would be plain silly not to get your copy. Its a goldmine, at year end sale rates!

[Kartik Bajoria, a regular contributor, runs his own creative agency called BOLD & is also involved in Films & Music as a force of habit!]

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